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Hurricane Triggers Gas Price Hike Fears
As motorists head into the Labor Day holiday weekend, Hurricane Gustav in the Gulf of Mexico is triggering fears that gas prices will once again spike if there's damage to oil platforms in the gulf.
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Art events
William Carey University will host the South Mississippi Art Association's third annual Members Only Juried Exhibition today through Sept. 10 in the Lucile Parker Gallery, Thomas Fine Arts Center. Various mediums of artwork will be included in the exhibit. An opening reception will be 7-8 p.m. today. The gallery is open 1-4 p.m. Monday-Friday, except for school holidays. For more information, ...
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Pope says crucified frog blasphemous
Italian museum's board to decide artwork's future after local official went on hunger strike
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Cut-price masterpiece appeal
The art world is hoping to secure taxpayers' money to buy a painting from its wealthy owner and ensure it stays in Britain. The 7th Duke of Sutherland has offered a Titian masterpiece, called Diana and Actaeon, to the National Gallery and the National Galleries of Scotland for £50 million.
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British galleries scramble to save Titian likened to Mona Lisa
Two British galleries are scrambling to find 50 million pounds in four months to keep a painting by Titian, the loss of which would be like the Louvre selling the Mona Lisa, an art chief said Thursday.
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Taj replica to wow tourists at Agra show
It took seven years of chiselling and carving by 28 craftsmen and designers. Made in pure white Makrana marble like the original 17th century monument, a Taj Mahal replica will be opened to the public as part of a glitzy stage show from Friday.
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The Miller Gallery's internationally renowned new curator, Astria Suparak, debuts her first Pittsburgh show.
Her hiring, in March, makes her arguably the biggest underground art star to move to Pittsburgh in years. By Bill O'Driscoll.
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This week's gallery hop
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Video: Brad and George wow the crowds at the Venice Film Festival
Video: It's all about the family for Brad Pitt and George Clooney as the Burn After Reading stars joke around at the Venice Film Festival
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A Polish tailor finds peace in Inverness
EDINBURGH (Reuters Life!) - The wartime disintegration of family life is vividly portrayed in a hit play at the Edinburgh Fringe festival in which a young tailor from Poland finally finds a haven in the Scottish city of Inverness.
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Galleries told to find £100m to secure iconic paintings
AN unexpected £100 million needs to be found to secure a world-famous art collection in Edinburgh's National Galleries of Scotland.
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Loop Exhibits
Works on paper, sculpture; 'Natural States'; Art in the Hallway; Latifah Shay; 'Homage'; Spectrum Seven; Paintings and sculptures; Art glass of the golden age; Untamed/Unnamed; Photographs of Great Falls, Potomac River and C&O Canal; Cumberland Valley Artists Exibition; Beaver Creek School Museum; Building America's Canals; The Fabric of Our Lives
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Kate Moss statue 'largest since ancient Egypt'
The British Museum plans to display a statue of supermodel Kate Moss that it bills as the largest gold statue built since ancient Egypt.
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Zimbabwe: New Award in Film Making on Cards
In an effort to promote the use of vernacular languages in local films, the Zimbabwe International Film Festival Trust will unveil a new award - The Best Use of an Indigenous Language in a Film Production - at this year's edition of the film fete.
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Nature inspires muralist's work
An English Romantic painter born in 1776, Constable was not appreciated during his lifetime, Whaley said. But his work today is in museums - and available in coloring books.
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RCOG Release: Imaging Mother And Child Worldwide
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) will host an evening lecture by award-winning photographer and filmmaker Nancy Durrell McKenna on 4 September. The event is organised by the Royal Photographic Society and is part of their International Awards. Ms McKenna was awarded the Combined Royal Colleges Medal in 2007.
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pope’s name to Franz Pahl, president of the regional government who opposed the sculpture. "Surely this is not a work of art but a blashphemy and a disgusting piece of trash that upsets many people," Pahl told Reuters by telephone as the museum board was meeting.
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Galleries launch appeal for cut-price masterpiece
The art world is hoping to secure taxpayers' money to buy a painting from its wealthy owner to ensure it stays in Britain.
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Pictures: See lifesize golden Kate Moss sculpture plus the supermodel in other artful poses
This is the first glimpse of a life-size statue of Kate Moss - carved in gold. The 7st 12lb, £1.5million work, Siren by Marc Quinn, will be at the British Museum in London from October 4.
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Pope says Italian museum's crucified frog sculpture is blasphemous
Board to decide artwork's future after local official went on hunger strike
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Venice Film Festival Opens With Pitt, Clooney Comedy
Hundreds of fans lined up to the entrance of the main cinema that was attended by both stars.
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Pope angry over crucified green frog sculpture
ROME (Reuters) - A modern art sculpture portraying a crucified green frog holding a beer mug and an egg that Pope Benedict has condemned as blasphemous may have its days numbered.
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A Polish tailor finds peace in Inverness
The wartime disintegration of family life is vividly portrayed in a hit play at the Edinburgh Fringe festival in which a young tailor from Poland finally finds a haven in the Scottish city of Inverness.
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Duke says painting a bargain at $92-million
Owner lowers price on Titian masterpiece for British galleries
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Crucified frog has Pope hopping mad
A MODERN art sculpture portraying a crucified green frog holding a beer mug and an egg that Pope Benedict has condemned as blasphemous may have its days numbered.
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